Stove or range.



O. BERGSTROM.

STOVE OR RANGE.

. APPLICATION FILED MAY|7.19\5.

Patented Nov. 16, 1915.

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STOVE 0R RANGE. APPLICATION FlLED MAY 17, 1915.

Patented Nov. 16, 1915.

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"own 55x06 IV 1 TN E SSE S 4. 74. 1M- ATTORNEY GEORGE O. BERG-STROM, 0F NEENAH, WISCONSIN, ASSIGNOR, TO BERGSTROM STOVE COMPANY, OF NEENAH, WISCONSIN.

STOVE 0R RANGE.

Application filed May 17, 1915.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, GEORGE O. BERG- STROM, a citizen of the United States, residing at Neenah, in the county of \Vinnebago and State of Wisconsin, have invented a new and useful Stove or Range, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to a cooking stove or range in which solid fuel such as coal and wood and also gas is used, and includes the form of the gas burner for the oven and the location of said burner relative to the oven and the flues of the stove, and its object is to deliver the gas from such a point as not to affect the draft in the flues when solid fuel is being used, andto deliver such anabundant supply of air to the gas burner and provide such an arrangement of fiues that when burning gas for heating the oven it will be uniformly heated and when burning solid fuel there will be no cold places in the oven by reason of the location therein of any of the gas heating-mechanism. While cooking burners are shown in the drawings, it should be understood that they form no part of this invention.

My improvement is shown in the accompanying drawing in which,

Figure 1 is a side elevation of a stove in which myinvention is applied, the doors to the solid fuel fire pot and ash pan apart ment being omitted and the oven door opened downward and showing the inside of the oven. Fig. 2 is an end elevation of the oven gas burner tube. Fig. 3 is a side elevation of said gas burner tube. Fig. 4: is an elevation in section, of a fragmenteof the inside of the oven at the right hand end of Fig. 1, and the gas burner in the flue at the end of the oven, the lid which closes an opening in the stove plate between the oven and said flue being opened. Fig. 5 is a. plan of a removable gas oven plate which forms the oven bottom when it is heated with Fig. 6' is a plan of a plate which forms a. part of the oven top and the bottom of a flue which leads to the smoke pipe and is provided with lines in communication with the gas heated oven. Fig. 7 is a vertical section upon the line 1, 1, of Fig. 1, showing the space between the oven top and stove top and between the nor- Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Nov. 16, 1915.

Serial No. 28,638.

mal oven top and gas heated oven top. Figs. 8 and 9 are a plan and edge view respectively of the right hand oven hinge and flue opening cover. Fig. 10 is a vertical section of the opening into the gas burner tube pocket, a side elevation of a hinge member over the opening and an air receiving case around the pocket.

Similar numerals and letters indicate like parts in the several views.

1, indicates the front side of-the stove; 2, the stove top; 3, the solid fuel opening; 4:, the fire pot; 5, ash pan opening; 6, ash pan; 7, hinge members for doors; 8, door catches; 9, oven door opening downward; 10, left hand oven door hinge; 11, right hand oven door hinge member and cover for an opening through the plate 1 for admittin'g air to the gas burner for the oven; 12, clean out under the oven; 13, the oven having a bottom 26; 14, brackets for supporting shelves from the oven side walls;

15, a removable gas oven bottom plate supported uponlegs 15 upon the normal oven bottom 16; 17, a gas burner tube which is located in a pocket 17, hand corner of the oven, substantially outside of the oven walls, and is provided with at the lower right a casing 17*, two or three inches in depth from the front plate 1, and within the down flue 18 at the point where the pipe that delivers the gas to the oven burner enters the stove. The burner tube 17, does not fill the opening from the pocket 17*,

into the oven, and air fromoutside of the stove can enter for supplying the. burning gas. See Figs. 1 and 1 19 is an air entrance through the plate 1, and under the hinge member 11 said member being spaced from the plate 1, intermediate its ends for permitting the entrance of outside air to the oven burner. The course of the draft from the fire pot when solid fuel is being used, with direct draft, is over the oven top to the where a damper 21,having handle 22, can cut off the direct draft. The indirect draft is across the oven top to the flue 18, thence downward and under the oven to a partition 23, (see F igs .v 1 and/1) which extends from under the rear of the oven toward its front a part of, the distance,

smoke pipe 20, an operating tending the full around the end of which a flue 24:, carries the draft to the smoke pipe. This arrangement of fines is common in wood and coal burning stoves. For the gas heated oven I lace a burner tube 17 in the pocket 17, with its gas escape perforations 25, in communication with the lower end of the normal oven 13, the tube extending nearly across the end as is shown in Fig. 4:-

13, is a lid hinged over the pocket for closing the same. Above the normal oven bottom 26, the plate 15 provides a gas burning chamber 27. The form of the late 15 leaves a flue 28, at each side of the handle 29, and fiues 30, are provided at the end of the plate opposite the burner end, whereby, with the flow of gas toward the fiues 30, said plate is heated from the burning gas and the draft through the fines 28 allows the heat to pass upward inside of the oven door and counteract any cold air effects through the several joints around the oven door. bove the plate 15 is a plate 31, having a plurality of flues 32, through the front end thereof, through which the hot air passes to a flue 33, which extends from the front to rear ends of the oven and is in communication with the smoke ipe through the opening 34:, at the rear end of the flue 33, so that by reason of the location of the burner tube 17 flues 28, 30, 32 and 33, and the opening 34, there is an even distribution of heat throughout the gas heated ,oven, and no cold air places remain around the oven by reason of the location of 1tS,

when the oven burner is not in use and the' oven is being heated with fuel in the fire pot. A cook 39 is provided in the pipe 40, for controlling the supply of gas to the oven. The pocket case 17*, is attached to the frame plate 1, by means of bolts through its ears 17. 17, is an open ing in the case throughwhich the gas pipe 40 enters.

Having described claim and desire to secure by ent, is,

1. 111a combined solid fuel and gas burnin stove having an oven adapted to be heated'by the burning of solid fuel, a pocket substantially outside ofthe oven and at the lower right burner,

my invention, what I Letters Pathand corner thereof and exdepth of the oven, a lid for closing over said pocket, a gas burner tube :arranged therein and extending the entire length of the pocket and having a series of gas jet openings directed toward the oven, a pocket case arranged at one end of and partly inclosing the same-1 said pocket and being adapted to admit air from outside of the stove and supply the same to the burning gas.

2. In a combined solid fuel and gas burning stove having an oven adapted to be the oven for admitting oven door and a plurality of flues through 'tween it and the oven top which leads to a ing heated by the burning of solid fuel, a pocket substantially outside of, and at the lower right hand corner and extending the full depth of the oven, a lid for closing over said pocket, a gas burner tube arranged therein and extending the entire length ofthe pocket and having a series of gas jet openings directed toward the oven, an opening to the outside air from said pocket and. into the oven for admitting a supply of air to the gas burner, a supplemental oven bot- 7 tom plate spaced above the normal oven bottom and having an opening for a handle and a narrow space forming a flueat each side of the handle the full Width of the oven door and a plurality of fiues through the plate at the end thereof opposite the gas burner end which are in communica tion with the smoke-pipe flue.

3. In a combined solid fuel and gas'burning stove having an oven adapted to be heated by the burning of solid fuel, a pocket substantially outside of, and at the lower right hand corner and extending the full depth of theoven, a lid for closing over said pocket, a 'gas burnertube arranged therein and extending the entire length of the pocket and having a series of gas jet openings directed toward the oven, an opening to the outside air from saidpocket and into a supply of air to the gas burner, a supplemental oven bottom plate spaced above the normal oven bottom and having an opening for a handle and a narrow space forming a flue at each side of the handle the full width of the the plate at the end thereof opposite the gas burner end, a plate spaced from the oven top below said top and forming a flue bethe smoke pipe flue and a plurality of apertures through the plate directly above the narrow spaced fines inside of the oven door along the front edge of the supplemental oven bottom. g

4. In a combined solid fuel and gas burnstove having an-oven therein adapted to be heated by the burning of solid fuel, a pocket at the lower right hand corner of the oven substantially outside of the oven, a lid for closing over said pocket, a gas burner tube arranged along said pocket substantially the full depth of the oven and having a series of gas jet openings directed a'pocket case around the pocket through which air toward the oven, entrance to sald [can be admitted-from outside of the stovebottom, a hand hole at theside of the plate adjoining the oven door, a flue each side of the hand hole, flues at the end of the plate opposite the burner tube end, a plate arranged above the supplemental oven bottom plate and forming a flue which leads to the smoke pipe, and a series of fines through said plate at its and adjoining the oven door.

GEORGE O. BERGSTROM. itnesses:

J OHN W. POWERS, WM. A. GERHARDT.

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